====== 2023 bingo ======
It's that time again, time to make questionable predictions for the year. Any that come true should be highlighted <wrap hi>like so</wrap> and cited.

| ^  B  ^  I  ^  N  ^  G  ^  O  ^
^ 1 |  Mom gets high...and likes it  |  MH370 flight recorder(s) found  |  Seastrings LP  |  New -gate term enters the public consciousness  |  Loan forgiveness program is upheld  |
^ 2 |  My savings account hits \$20K  |  A popular blockchain hard forks  |  ORDOC facility closure  |  Twitter completely implodes  |  Extremely stupid disaster movie (think Sharknado)  |
^ 3 |  Umpqua lemon bar ice cream now available year-round  |  I get to play a good game of Catan  |  <wrap hi>I go on a hot date (free space)</wrap>[(N3)]  |   Emmett says something inappropriate at school ("hail Satan" counts)  |  Trump is indicted by the DOJ  |
^ 4 |  Shelly Miscavige reappears in public (in any form)  |  Streaming service merger  |  Banana shortage  | Space billionaire becomes human firework  |  Tide Pod challenge successor [(O4)]  |
^ 5 |  Stayton Taco Bell closes permanently  |  Oil spill in the Gulf  |  In-N-Out opens/announces another Oregon location  |  Mediocre new entry to a major franchise  |  Emmett's hamster dies  |

[(N3>I assembled a 4MS QPLFO kit. Since I set aside the time to spend with myself and used a soldering iron, I say this counts as a "hot date".)]
[(O4>**Plausible**: I heard of something called the "Mentos challenge", which apparently involves administering Mentos as suppositories and chasing them with Diet Coke. I need to confirm that it is both real and started in 2023.)]